He edited the collected works of James I; it has been said that his introductions "push the art of panegyric close to deification".[12] He had worked with James on An Apologie for the Oath of Allegiance in 1607, at Royston and Newmarket, reading to James the four volumes of the works of Cardinal Bellarmine.[13][14]

1893 text

James Montagu, Bishop of Bath and Wells in 1608, and of Winchester in 1616 — died 1618. He was uncle to the Earl of Sandwich, whose mother was Pepys’s aunt. Hence Pepys’s curiosity respecting the tomb. — B.

This text comes from a footnote on a diary entry in the 1893 edition edited by Henry B. Wheatley.